Chapter 29
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Violet
I sit in the waiting, from with my handbag an my lap, my knee bouncing up and down with nerves ||
Please let everything be okay ||
At first, I didn 1 want to be pregant, had me that vet my head around it, leaving a healthy baby is all that I want, I’ve got this feeling that because I was su against that in the beginning that now I’m going to be punished. Maybe that’s just wasm guilt starting earty:||
I didn’t tell Deb that my appointment was today: wanted to come alone. She can’t be at every doctor’s visit and I’m sure this first one is just standard practice, and besides, 1 need to get used to doing things alme.]]
The doctor walks out of his office with a folder in his hand, he’s around forty five, with salt and pepper hair, he has a kind dad vibe. “Violet Coleman?” He looks around and smiles when he sees me stand. “How are you today?“]
“Good, thanks” My heart is beating like a drums and I walk past him is the office and take a sem
He sits down and opens the file and reads it. “Congratulations, Ymit ins
mut ise. “he pamirs as he reads on.hrelve weeks unit live i
urch my handbag with white knuckle forer. “Yes” His eyes rise to usert mir. “A plased pregnancy?” “Ves.” TIME]
He keeps reading. “And what about the fathrt, is he esotrd?“]
his desk
days pregnant.”
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should pred to know; he has no legal reasons to
“Tanta” He smiles. “This baby is a gift” “Yes” I force a sale, feeling guilty.
y for lying[]
“I was amificially inseminded“]
His rise to meet mine. “At what clinic?“||
“In New York at the Chelsea Fertility Clinic,” I reply without missing a beat. I’ve done contact them
“Okay” he replies. “Let’s do an ultrasound, bop up onto the bed for me” I lie down and pull my T shirt up.
“This will be a live cold.” He squirts gel on the end of the ultrasound wand and solds it over my stomach []
The moves it around and pushes the wand deeper into my stomach ||
“everything okay?” Jack |
“ers, just finding your baby. It’s biding in here somewhere.” Thold my breath as he pushes and plads me ||
Squelch spelih syurl.
“There we are, do you hear that?” He smiles: “A perfect heartbeat“||
The sound brings a big smide tu my face. “I can hear it“||
He frowns and then kerja prodding and poking “Hman, that’s interesting ||
“Their are two beartbeats
Chat?” My eyes widen “What do you thean)
Do you hate twins in your family?”
My mouth fall
alli open as the bed moves beper
“Uk lub ” the wipes my stomach
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e takes my hand and helps me sit up
ack in your chair.” I stare at him in a daze ||
Twins
che swauris his chair from side in side. “Vrau lait the jackpot and got some good strong sperm.” Or not[]
begin to bracing heartbeat in my ear
mod now there are two ||
“Violet?” the diu for says, interrupting my tongas. “What do you say to i|
diringly. “Twins are a gift, and I know your will hande this like a pro. Trs completely normal to be apprehensive. But of
course, depending on how they are in utero will
termine the birthing plan we make
moving forward.”
rward:”||
I stare at him in hocant, I have to push two limides nest of my vagina.
|| supposed to do two? I get a vision of
dying on the delivery table., Oh My God||
“How dors that sound!”
1 glance back up at him, having no idea what be just said. “Goni!” The
, there is nothing sounding good about this at
(this at all!]
“Okay then. 111 see you in four weeks.” He writes something down on a piece of paper and passes it over. “Take these vitamins and at a varied diet. Try to have
cbroad a range of vegetables and fruit as you can and keep up the fluids.
I stare at him, mystified||
That’s it? He’s going to casually send me home carrying an entire fucking army in my stomach?
“Goodbye, Vindet.
“Goodbye” con autoplot, I stumble out of the doctor’s surgery and wander to my car. I slump into my seat and stare out through the windscreen ||
To shocked to cry, too panicked to think and unable to speak
Twins
